Sally Macintyre is Director of the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow. This Unit's remit is to promote human health via the study of social and environmental influences on health, and it aims to study how people's social positions, and their social and physical environments, influence their physical and mental health and capacity to lead healthy lives, and to design and evaluate interventions aiming to improve public health and reduce social inequalities in health.
For the last 20 years her own research has focused on socioeconomic, gender, and spatial patterning of health. She chaired the evaluation panel of the Acheson Committee on Inequalities in Health, and was on the Department of Health’s Scientific Reference Group on Health Inequalities; she has recently given evidence to the Scottish Ministerial Task Force on Inequalities, the Scottish Parliamentary Health & Sport Committee on Inequalities, and the House of Commons Select Committee Inquiry into Inequalities.
She was Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Social Science and Medicine from 1995 – 2004, and was awarded the CBE for services to social science in 2006.
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